Word: accidental
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“Passionate” was the word friends, teammates, coaches, and Harvard officials used to describe Ariel E.F. Shaker ’10—who passed away Wednesday night after suffering injuries in a horse-riding accident last Thursday.
The Salem News reported last week that police said Shaker was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident.
At the very least, the 24-year-old Wilhite should be on a ventilator and in a wheelchair. Instead, only six months after the accident - which took the lives of Adenhart, Henry Pearson and Courtney Stewart - Wilhite walks, talks, lifts weights, jogs - and smiles. A catcher on the Cal State...
Paramedics used the "Jaws of Life" to remove the top of the mangled Eclipse and slide a backboard behind Wilhite before carefully lifting him out and placing him in a rigid collar. At the hospital, doctors considered operating immediately to fuse Wilhite's head back onto his spine, but that...
Today, the hitter, who was blessed with 20/15 vision before the accident, says, "My eyes are starting to sync up and track." To look around, Wilhite must turn his upper body, not his neck. "Will he have a 100% recovery?" asks Bhatia. "No, he will never be back to where...